Islands and Ancestors
Title | Islands and Ancestors PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller |
Publisher | Prestel Publishing |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Art |
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Islands and Ancestors: Indigenous Styles of Southeast Asia
Title | Islands and Ancestors: Indigenous Styles of Southeast Asia PDF eBook |
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Art of Island Southeast Asia
Title | Art of Island Southeast Asia PDF eBook |
Author | Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Pages | 157 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0870996975 |
Handbook of East and Southeast Asian Archaeology
Title | Handbook of East and Southeast Asian Archaeology PDF eBook |
Author | Junko Habu |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 761 |
Release | 2017-12-08 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1493965212 |
The Handbook of East and Southeast Asian Archaeology focuses on the material culture and lifeways of the peoples of prehistoric and early historic East and Southeast Asia; their origins, behavior and identities as well as their biological, linguistic and cultural differences and commonalities. Emphasis is placed upon the interpretation of material culture to illuminate and explain social processes and relationships as well as behavior, technology, patterns and mechanisms of long-term change and chronology, in addition to the intellectual history of archaeology as a discipline in this diverse region. The Handbook augments archaeologically-focused chapters contributed by regional scholars by providing histories of research and intellectual traditions, and by maintaining a broadly comparative perspective. Archaeologically-derived data are emphasized with text-based documentary information, provided to complement interpretations of material culture. The Handbook is not restricted to art historical or purely descriptive perspectives; its geographical coverage includes the modern nation-states of China, Mongolia, Far Eastern Russia, North and South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Burma, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and East Timor.
Indonesian Megaliths: A Forgotten Cultural Heritage
Title | Indonesian Megaliths: A Forgotten Cultural Heritage PDF eBook |
Author | Tara Steimer-Herbet |
Publisher | Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Pages | 117 |
Release | 2018-09-30 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 178491844X |
An exploration of Indonesian megaliths based on scientific documents and field visits, this work highlights misunderstood—and sometimes threatened by destruction—aspects of Indonesian cultural heritage and offers a unique perspective on megalithic monuments abandoned for several centuries in the archipelago.
How to Read Oceanic Art
Title | How to Read Oceanic Art PDF eBook |
Author | Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 178 |
Release | 2014-09-02 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0300204299 |
An engaging explanation of Oceanic art and an important gateway to wider appreciation of Oceanic heritage and visual culture
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art
Title | The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art PDF eBook |
Author | Bruno David |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 1185 |
Release | 2018-10-17 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0190844957 |
Rock art is one of the most visible and geographically widespread of cultural expressions, and it spans much of the period of our species' existence. Rock art also provides rare and often unique insights into the minds and visually creative capacities of our ancestors and how selected rock outcrops with distinctive images were used to construct symbolic landscapes and shape worldviews. Equally important, rock art is often central to the expression of and engagement with spiritual entities and forces, and in all these dimensions it signals the diversity of cultural practices, across place and through time. Over the past 150 years, archaeologists have studied ancient arts on rock surfaces, both out in the open and within caves and rock shelters, and social anthropologists have revealed how people today use art in their daily lives. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art showcases examples of such research from around the world and across a broad range of cultural contexts, giving a sense of the art's regional variability, its antiquity, and how it is meaningful to people in the recent past and today - including how we have ourselves tended to make sense of the art of others, replete with our own preconceptions. It reviews past, present, and emerging theoretical approaches to rock art investigation and presents new, cutting-edge methods of rock art analysis for the student and professional researcher alike.